Clarke rejects resignation calls over date rape remarks
The veteran Tory refused to apologise after widespread condemnation of his apparent suggestion that date rape was not “serious rape”, saying he had only set out how the law distinguished between different situations.
“If I caused genuine offence to anybody by explaining that long-standing factual situation, then I must have made a very poor choice of words, so I shall try to choose my words more carefully in the future,” he said.
